How does this only have 7 likes? This is so good, so well edited.

Id love to make a video like this, but it'd be like 4 games. Props to you and anyone else who can just pick up a random game and play it.

I already watched this months ago Now watching again since Aztecross, Legendary Drops and Macticus have been ELATED with Warframe 🔥.

Everything I wanted from Gunfire reborn, Roboquest is so clean I love it

i can definitely vouch for Warframe

woah balatro > slay???

Woah you're a pro gamer?

Wish there was a leveling system or smth

I have been playing that game since the prerelease. The only negative is the RNG. Some runs just don't take off, but great review.

What were you reacting to in the body looting part? I watched the clip again and again, but whatever it was didn't translate to the final format.

Great concise overview..this definitely looks appealing

The Loot Rarity system isn't even really a "system" it's a gate. All the Non-legendary items create sort of speed bump effect. It just slows you down from getting a "good item". Personally I would like to see White, Green, Blue, and Purple items have some sort of use other than just being filler from waiting for an orange to drop. I think they have an great design opportunity to re-think lower level loot in a looter shooter.

Bases are a staple of survival, in an apocalypse you want a safe haven, you store gear and loot that you need and keep that running with other gear. I think it just sounds like your bases keep getting hit so you personally dont build a base so you wont lose that loot

I personally disagree, bases add a meaning to continue survival and have something to achieve. Finding another base and raiding it is always another benefit of reward. I loved coming across bases in 0.62, but when bases were no longer a thing in 0.63 the game was lacking and eventually got boring.

I would say Duperz with duper bases, a clean base with legit loot is fine by me.

Yet still, we are addicted

Also…. Where are the hordes??? Barely more than 10 when you shoot a gun in a military base

why brotato is an egg?

If they are changing the default model so it isn't so bizarre then good for them. That was an odd design choice but I don't speak for everyone ofc.

Great review! What's the name of the game shown at 1:45?

I really like your style, sounds very authentic. It's clear you know what you're talking about, it's not just "another dry roguelikes essay". Randomness, progression and replayability are definitely core feature of roguelikes. And I agree with you: the fact that indie studios have limited resources is a strength: this push devs to try something new and gifted us with gems like Hades, Slay the Spire, Dome Keeper. Congrats for this work, you definitely deserve a bigger audience! I subscribed to you in the meanwhile 😃 I hope that I can reach a similar spot in the future with my channel, one step at a time 😊 Little note: i'd suggest to you to add in the description the list of games shown with Steam link 😉

what's weapons?

i'm a newer player as well and have been having trouble with higher ascensions. the best players i've seen are really good at leveraging potions and colorless cards

i've heard claw is usually not good

The much more detailed comment than mine is more useful, but just a bit of two-cents on why I think you really underrate compile in particular. I don’t know if you do this, but one thing that helped me understand draw effects and their usefulness a bit more is thinking of a card that doesn’t draw as -1 draw (i.e. you have to give up drawing another card to draw it). Looking at it this way, compile driver is deal 7 damage and (usually in early game) draw zero (it replaces itself). When you think about how important cycling your deck is after your first few card rewards (you wanna get back to your ball lightning/cold snap/beam cell ASAP) , this is SO important and I think you undervalue it a lot. If you have any source of other orbs this becomes one of the most powerful common attacks in the game, and you seem to value 0 cost cards a lot which makes this even better. Even if compile is the last card you draw, if you have any orbs up, it gives you the chance to shuffle the discard pile without the crap strikes and defends you have in your hand - this alone could save your run against gremlin nob. For common attacks I think you probably also undervalue cold snap, a lot of enemies deal 12 or 7 damage and cold snap can be the difference for quite a lot of chip damage through a run, but I probably undervalue cold snap too so I feel less passionate about this one). Overall the video is great though, good to see insight from someone like me who isn’t a complete genius in this game, shows the depth and complexity of it in a different way.

Ok, comments from watching your latest run from Twitch ( www.twitch.tv/videos/2248265639 ). You play very fast. Maybe slow down a little? - Floor 1: You took 7 dmg from Jaw Worm, when you could've gotten away with only 2, IMO. - Floor 1: I would've picked Sweeping Beam over Cold Snap - Floor 2: You took an extra 1 dmg from cultist for absolutely no reason, you gotta catch those if you wanna beat A20H. You had guaranteed 10 block next turn, but you played an extra strike on auto-pilot and took 1, then you drew an out and got the kill. - Floor 3: You removed Defend over Strike! Crazy! Defect does very well with Strikes removed instead of Defends. - Floor 7: you miss scaling the Genetic for absolutely no reason. This is another just straight up mistake. Like, not a tricky judgement call, just a suboptimal play that you missed. - Floor 10: you only saved 4 with that potion, not very efficient. Predictable b/c of Horn Cleat. I would call that a bad call on your part. - Floor 10: killed the wrong grey slime with Streamline the second time, didn't end up mattering. - Floor 11: missed Hologram => Streamline, which seems much better than Coolheaded => Genetic. ...moments later: "we need some dmg on him" and I'm like "yeah, because you missed the streamline!" I think you took an extra 5 or so here. - Floor 11: I would never have picked All for One here. 0 times out of 10. It literally gets nothing back until you've played Streamline twice. - Floor 13: you draw two strikes and no block and say "this turn is going to suck" => yeah, because you removed a defend earlier! - Floor 13: Fusion is really good with gold-plated cables. Did you notice that and skip it or did you rush past? - Floor 14 pathing: you have a smoke bomb, you could've checked to see if the burning elite had an irrelevant modifier, like plus-strength-laga. Still, maybe better to skip. - Floor 14: missed playing genetic for no reason. - Floor 16: turn 1: should've played All for One + Strike over Strike+Strike for 4 more dmg. - Floor 16: with loop + defrag + frost, you could've set up to be extremely safe against the Boss, you didn't need to take so much damage to win that fight.There are several turns where you take an extra 4-5 for no good reason. Should've played the fight more patiently. - Floor 17: I would've taken Fusion Hammer over Bell. You got *great* relics though... - Floor 19: Another Defend removal! Crazy pt 2.Strikes are so bad... - Floor 21: You snap picked The Bomb over Madness, but Madness works with All for One. Did you consider that? - Floor 21: also, you had electro against birds, my guess is that that potion didn't actually save you much health. - Floor 22: you missed Holo => Defrag, which was better than playing Zap. - Floor 22: you see that you don't have lethal, "he's on 3 hp", but then you play an insanely aggro line instead of just calmly blocking. You took 2 here for no reason. You should've played defend+defend+loop. - Floor 22: you play a strike over zap when the zap would've done much more damage because of gold-plated cables. Didn't end up mattering. - Floor 22: second Holo was pretty good here, might save you an upgrade later. - Floor 23: Turn two against Slavers, you play Coolheaded+Electro instead of Electro+Coolheaded, over blocked by 10 and missing out on 6 dmg to all. Also, it made it harder for you to block on the next turn. - Floor 23: I would've taken either Compile Driver or maybe Recycle, not skipped here. - Floor 25 turn one: defend, coolheaded, dualcast full blocks and saves you the buffer charge. Would've worked really well with Horn Cleat. - Floor 25 turn two: you play hologram for no reason. - Floor 28: here you can see the cost of missing a couple Genetic stacks because you have to play an extra defend instead of zap. - Another reason you shouldn't miss a single Genetic stack is that you have Calipers, so extra block is always good. - Floor 30: you misplay turn 4, taking 5 extra damage for no reason. - Floor 30: pretty late for a charge battery. I would've skipped there. - Floor 31: complete waste of gamblers brew, you already were full blocking and could've just played defrag+cold snap or defrag+Streamline. - Floor 32: I would've upgraded not rested here. Collector should be easy for your deck, you've got electro and great setup. You didn't need the HP. - Floor 33: "we cannot block the 21 no matter what" => Not true, coolheaded might draw an out. - Floor 33: turn 6, you could've thrown the explosive potion to save 20 hp there - Floor 33: Biased Cog > Core Surge >>> Reboot. Reboot is probably worse than skip here. It would be crazy to pick it. - Floor 34: Runic Pyramid is great, but it's a lot better with 4 energy. Imagine if you had taken Fusion Hammer earlier... It also plays quite badly with Curse of the Bell. - Floor 36: Dupe defrag was better, IMO, but at least you removed a Strike this time. - Missed which floor: rebound was a mistake here. - Floor 38: you clicked the double orb walkers fight SO FAST. Nuts. That's one of the toughest fights in the game and shouldn't be an auto-click by any means. - Floor 38: you played an extra defend for no reason, it still consumed the buffer charge and you could've played a strike (at least) instead. - Floor 38: you did indeed misplay that fight. It's a tough fight. My overall take: your card picks are pretty good, but you misplay a lot. I recommend slowing down for a few runs and trying to avoid all the straight up errors.

I'm not *way* better than you by any stretch, but I've beaten A20H back-to-back with defect at least once or twice. So, take all this with the relevant grain of salt. You overrate Ball Lightning. Def shouldn't be a snap pick. Probably every card you think is a snap pick isn't a snap pick. It's only 1 more targeted dmg than a strike and targeted damage is really important. Ball Lightning is not obviously better than streamline, for example, to me. Claw is bad. Stop thinking of "claw" decks. Claw is *very occasionally* a scaling solution, but maybe the worst card in the card pool most of the time. Definitely not a good card to add floor 1. I would probably skip over adding a claw floor one. You're right that to make it good you have to force your own hand, that's the kind of thing that will tank your win rate. You gotta be able to go with the flow and never force a build. You overrate Charge Battery too. Auto-shields is (usually) better. Reinforced Body is (usually) better. On the turn you play it, it's worse than defend+. Cold Snap vs Ball Lightning: BL is better early, CS is better later. If you're getting stuck on A19 or A20 or heart, then it's probably because you're building too much for the early game and not building enough that can scale into the late game. Instead of "I pick BL over CS almost every time" you should think "Do I need damage right now for Gremlin Nobb or Act 1 boss?" and then only take BL if you need dmg. Channel one frost is somewhere between "play metallicize" and "play defend". Compile Driver is the best draw that Defect has at Common rarity. I've seen winning A20H decks with three copies of CD as the draw solution. You aren't going to win without draw somehow, and CD is a pretty good way to get it in many cases (given sufficient orb types, ofc). Go for the Eyes: I think I take this more than any of the other zero cost attacks. Perhaps I should take Beam Cell more than Go for the Eyes though, I'm not sure. Between upgrade Hologram and upgrade Streamline, I would almost always upgrade Streamline. That's an easy call for me. If it's late game and I have a Streamline- in my deck, then something went wrong. You can substitute upgrading Hologram by taking more copies of Hologram. It is very good. My guess is you over-pick leap. (I should watch a run of yours...) Hearing you talk about recursion, I think you might over-value zero cost things in general, I'm not sure why... Yeah, Stack is bad usually. It does play better with hologram (and more card draw, which you admit you probably under-value).You simply don't play it if it's early in the cycle. Stack doesn't play well with powers, since they don't go to the discard pile. I have never actually seen Steam Barrier get to zero block. I have a feeling that your fights are going super long for some reason. The *second* play of steam barrier is better than a defend (b/c cheaper). The first play is obviously better. Sweeping Beam is indeed solid, but it's crazy to think it's good by the point you get to Donu Deca. You would need to play Sweeping Beam+ THIRTY times, not counting block, to kill those two. Sure it chips in, but that's never going to be a good damage plan for late game. Turbo and Hologram is another synergy that's really important. One thing: you can Holo the void, another, it makes every following Hologram into +1 energy for the first deck cycle. Auto-shields is really good, but it also has a great upgrade. Blizzard can totally win runs, but it's rare-ish. Doom and Gloom is really, really good. Definitely the best source of Dark orbs (over Darkness and Chaos). I suspect you under-value it. Turbo is almost always better than Double Energy. DE is much more situational, IMO. It is good with multi-cast sometimes, or to get down an Echo Form in a pinch. Right on the money with Equilibrium. That card is very strong. FTL makes your draw worse, not better. It's either card-neutral or card-negative. It never helps you draw your deck more quickly. Fusion: If you're always whipping orbs around, then Dark orbs and Plasma orbs are going to be under-used (and capacitor). I think there's an archetype that you're missing out on here. Genetic: you can take this as late as mid Act 3 if you have Echo Form. The most important question, IMO, isn't is it early in the run, it's "can I survive the next 3-4 fights with a very weak card in my deck / a curse?" Glacier is fantastic. Heatsinks: yeah, obviously not a good pick with no other powers, but it's a very very strong card draw engine. I definitely wouldn't say it's on the weaker side of the powers pool, more like a-tier power or s-tier if well supported. Hello World: yes, this card is very hateable, but good for Act 1 boss fights and Sentries and generally just a source of draw in a pinch. I don't like using it, but I take it when I "should" if I'm playing on A20. Melter is very strong early game. More targeted damage than Ball Lightning! I think you're right about Overclock and still wrong about Turbo. The void is ethereal, the burn is not. Also, Turbo is +2/+3 energy, Overclock is +1/+2 draw, after accounting for itself. Quite situational card. Overclock+ is very substantially better than Overclock, because it's basically a +100% upgrade, netting you 2 cards instead of 1. Overclock is definitely another card that I don't like aesthetically and only take when I have to. Recycle is probably a little better than you think. Reinforced Body is indeed great. I think Static Discharge is more conditional than you seem to think. It's a rare deck that really can use it well, IMO. Storm and Heatsinks are an archetype for sure. I don't think you should pick Storm as your second power. More like fourth+, IMO. Act 1 Sunder/Sunder+ is a thing of beauty. Biased, Buffer, Core Surge: yes yes yes. Yeah, Creative AI drags in Act 2 for sure. Better for Champ or Act 3. Echo Form upgrade is really not worth. I almost never upgrade it. Either you must play it, in which case you're going to play it first time, or you can get away without it and your upgrades are better spent elsewhere. This is the single piece of advice I'm most sure you're wrong about. Stop upgrading Echo Form. Turbo enables Meteor Strike, Recycle enables Meteor Strike, Fusion enables Meteor Strike. It is best with Snecko, but it's really strong if you can play it in other ways too. Multicast is really great with Dark orbs, ofc. I still think you're a little weak on this archetype, so it makes sense that you haven't seen it shine. It's also a reusable double energy with plasma. It's also really good with Echo Form. Echo Form => plasma, dark => double play multicast is insane damage, for example. Rainbow is not typically a good upgrade, certainly not something I would call an upgrade target. Quite situational that I would upgrade it. Reboot is NOT like a gambling chip! It reshuffles your discard pile, which makes it take a lot longer to get to your important powers. The first deck cycle is a very important thing, and reboot messes with that, making it a pretty tricky card to use well. I often skip it even against nothing else good. It gives you a better turn, yes, but a worse next few turns in many cases. Seek is maybe the best card in the game. Yes, you need *something* to seek for, but the consistency effects of having a Seek are insane. It's a tough call for me even up against Electro or Biased Cog. Seek makes it less than half as likely that you'll bottom-deck an important card. That said, if I look at my deck and say "I really need a card with output" then I can't take a seek over something that actually helps solve the problem. Thunder Strike: the condition isn't "am I generating a lot of lightning" it's really "am I generating a middling amount of lightning". If you're generating a lot already, then it's a win-more card, and YAGNI. You only need it in a particular sweet spot where you can't quite finish the job. Maybe you're running storm and tempest and you're worried about facing Giant Head soon. Most of your takes are solid. You're obviously a strong player. I really liked the video, I'm going to go watch one of your runs now! Cheers!

steam barrier works w/ reprogram (which is good with claw decks) and other dexterity scaling, and it still deducts to only 1. Definitely a situational thing, but it works sometimes. and u can also draw it with All For One.

This was a nice podcast because I got no clue what this game is. Just left it on in the background.

I don't think ive played roboquest since your last video on it but now i wanna again 💀 w video as always

Fun game , now play Deadlink... its even better (IMO)

Damn, while I enjoy music, I've never paid particular attention to it in video games. You've helped open my eyes. I'll have to get out of the habit of just pressing play on Spotify while playing, and pay more attention! Thanks! Roboquest looks great, while I don't particularly enjoy simple shooters like that, the music alone makes me want to check it out. Glad to hear the gameplay holds up as well!

There has to be scientific proof that a beat drop increases aim assist by 5%

underrated vid 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Still haven't played Slay The Spire, despite hearing about it probably a hundred times or more by now. I think I know what I'll be doing the new few days. Great video!

TRPGs did that for me. I play games on the highest difficulty and tactical games really punish you for what might seem like a small mistake.

Great video :]

I can could deal with the loot rarity (though I agree) and any other of the game’s faults but Borderlands 3 stinks of Pitchford. Reeks of Randy. The pathetic writing is super reminiscent of Randy’s “Har har har senõr” copulating rabbit in Duke Nukem. I can clearly hear Randy laughing and directing the writers to “keep it up” as clearly as I can smell the crusty thumb drives full of porn in his pockets. Borderlands3 was the best feeling shooting mechanics of the series, almost Bungie-level gun feel, but it’s covered in a thick, stinking Randy P slime. Witnessed grabbing ex employees by the throat in hotel lobbies, denying his devs their bonuses while paying them dirt, embezzling money from Duke and Aliens, all a matter of public record and clearly describes him as a truly foul man who befouls everything he touches even the 1 single success he lucked upon. With even averagely bad writing this game would have been elevated to legendary but the thick coating of awfulness is too awful. The fact this Saturday morning cartoon villain of a man is allowed to persist in this industry shows our priorities as a society are all wrong.

I don't know.... I wouldn't say it's Garry's mod 2 It's like a Garry's mod but roblox version. Yes there is sandbox mod in s&box but it's not the main thing. I think the Main, is to try improve source engine 2 in the engine. And i really wish they'll fix some bug and fps drop. Cuz when i go to avatar change my pc just crashes ( it won't crash the game ) i get around 1-3 FPS there😂 but when game i get 60-70 and it's still playable than 1-3 FPS Others i would do is to make the editor a bit... I don't know. I would say, that it shouldnt be free.... Bcuz if it's, then there will be so many maps/games that are just made by some little kids skibidi shits. And ye roblox editor is free too but idk. There will be too many gamemodes or games that are just some 1 hour made and just uploaded like.. a 1000 of it

Wait.. is s&box going to be a free game like roblox? If so i thought its going to be cost money like gmod.

how do i get it on mac????????

Is s&box free?

POV: Me coming out of my Rock house just the right time when s&box was released to the public

For those who came to the comments first: It's a public alpha release. Still buggy and lacks content, its a pub release to get more devs on and raise player count for MP games

Idk why but borderlands 3 stuck more with me, and I've played it more frequently. BL2 was really good to play as well, but I haven't had much reason to go back to it 🤷. I've bought the dlcs for it recently so I might get back into it

Borderlands 2 was the best game in the series. 😁👍

Borderlands 3 just wasn't for me, and I played/loved the first and second game. A shame really :(

Awesome video. As someone that only put a lot of hours into BL2 and never really got into BL3, this was a very insightful watch!

I wish I could edit like this

Warframe is the gamings best kept secret